UNP will be exhibiting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair March 26-29 in Los Angeles, California. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Come visit us in booths 359/361 to browse our books and journals!

Attending the conference virtually or can’t make it? Check out our virtual book exhibit here for the same great books and conference discount.

Below is a schedule of UNP author panels, signings, and more!

Wednesday, March 26: In the conference

6:30 p.m. AWP Awards Reception & Benefit for LA Fire Recovery

Kick off #AWP25 with an evening of recognition, solidarity, and support. The event will also honor and celebrate the winners of AWP’s awards including Ben Grossberg, whose novel The Spring Before Obergefell was winner of the 2023 James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel. Dean Marshall Tuck’s Twinless Twin is the 2024 winner.

Thursday, March 27: Happening in booth 359/361

All day: books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).

11:00-11:30 a.m. book signing with DeMisty D. Bellinger, author of All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere, winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction and the latest title in Zero Street.

2:00-2:30 p.m. book signing with Brandel France de Bravo, author of Locomotive Cathedral, Honorable Mention of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry.

4:00-4:30 p.m. book signing with Julie Choffel, author of Dear Wallace, winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry.

Thursday, March 27: In the conference

9:00-10:15 a.m. PDT

T127: “Only Connect! Innovative & Effective Online Teaching in an Age of Distraction” with Ana Maria Spagna, author of Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus.

T129: “A Reading from Recent Prizewinning Short Story Collections” with Terese Svoboda, author of Dog on Fire, Tin God, Bohemian Girl, and more.

10:35-11:50 a.m. PDT

T154: “Literary Magazine as Textbook: Teaching Periodicals & Publishing in the Classroom” with Susan Nguyen, author of Dear Diaspora.

T156: “Hybrid Selves, Hybrid Form: Queer & Feminist Possibilities of the Prose Poem” with Sophie Klahr, author of Two Open Doors in a Field

12:10-1:25 p.m. PDT

T165: “National Jewish Book Award Poetry Reading & Conversation” with Jared Harél, author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject.

T178: “Older & Wiser or Older & Invisible? Five Authors Reflect” with Nancy Lord, author of Rock, Water, Wild.

T180: “A Singing Wound: Poetry of the Ukrainian Diaspora Since 2014” with Luisa Muradyan, author of American Radiance.

1:45-3:00 p.m. PDT

T193: “Writing Toward Community, Sponsored by Blue Flower Arts” with Ladan Osman, author of The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony, Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children, and Mahtem Shifferaw, author of Fuschia and Your Body Is War.

Friday, March 28: In booth 359/361

All day: books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).

11:00-11:30 a.m. book signing with Sherrie Flick, author of Homing, a recent title in the American Lives Series.

2:00-2:30 p.m. book signing with Ben Grossberg, author of The Spring Before Obergefell, winner of the AWP James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel.

3:00-3:30 p.m. book signing with Bailey Gaylin Moore, author of Thank you for Staying With Me, the latest title in the American Lives Series.

4:00-4:30 p.m. book signing with David Lazar, author of Stories of the Street.

Friday, March 28: In the Conference

9:00-10:15 a.m. PDT

F113: “Becoming a Debut Novelist: The Journey from Agent Queries to Book Launch” with Megan Cummins, author of If the Body Allows It.

F120: “Callaloo Literary Journal: The Revitalization of a Legacy” with Matthew Shenoda, foreword author of Modern Sudanese Poetry.

F128: “The Long & Short of Craft: Authors Publishing Novels & Flash Fiction” with Sherrie Flick, author of Homing, and Venita Blackburn, author of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes.

F133: “Preparing Students for Life Beyond the Writing Program” with Amina Gautier, author of Now We Will Be Happy.

10:35-11:50 a.m. PDT

F141: “Somehow I Manage: Managing Editors Who Manage Editors” with Jessica Poli, editor of More in Time.

F156: “The Pedagogy of Climate Change” with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, author of Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer.

F157: “Can I Write That? At the Crossroads of Social Change & Conscious Language” with Sonya Huber, author of Voice First, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System, and more.

F160: “The Translator’s Note: Bridging Linguistic & Cultural Chasms” with Nancy Naomi Carlson, translator of When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi.

F163: “Revisions: Performing Heart Surgery on Yourself Without Anesthesia” with Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of What Isn’t Remembered.

12:10-1:25 p.m. PDT

F178: “Beyond Translation: Two Writers, Two Languages” with S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg, author of Holocaust Girls.

F188: “Wandering Jews: Poetics of Diaspora & Land” with Mónica Gomery, author of Might Kindred.

F193: “Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way” with Kerry James Evans, author of Nine Persimmons (Backwaters Press, 2026).

1:45-3:00 p.m. PDT

F197: “A Poetics of Radical Parenting” with Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Bakandamiya (Nebraska, December 2025) and Your Crib, My Qibla.

F211: “Our Memory Will Not Be a Weapon: On Jewish Writing After October 7” with Mónica Gomery, author of Might Kindred.

3:20-4:35 p.m. PDT

F231: “The Love & the Work of the Short Story” with Dustin M. Hoffman, author of One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist.

F246: “Beyond Our Labor: Writing Our Lives as Farmworkers” with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, author of Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer.

Saturday, March 30: In booth 359/361

In the morning: books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).

Saturday, March 30: In the conference

9:00-10:15 a.m. PDT

S124: “An Early Spark: Writing Poems with Young People” with Matt Mason, author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know.

10:35-11:50 a.m. PDT

S160: “Conflict: Hell Is Story Friendly; Put Your Protagonist Among the Damned” with Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of What Isn’t Remembered.

S161: “Book Tours: Wisdom & Warning from Those Who’ve Gone Before” with Brad Balukjian, author of The Wax Pack.

12:10-1:25 p.m. PDT

S165: “Poetry of the West with Red Hen Press” with Peggy Shumaker, author of Just Breathe Normally.

S169: “Poetic Fathers: On the Entanglements of Writing About Our Children” with Nathaniel Perry, author of Long Rules.

S183: “Writing Traumedy: How to Make Your Mother Cry at Your Life & Laugh at Your Death” with Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction, and Sue William Silverman, author of Selected Misdemeanors (Nebraska 2026), Acetylene Torch Songs, and more.

1:45-3:00 p.m. PDT

S191: “Native American Poetry from California, a Reading” with Denise Low, author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart.

S199: “Experiments in Time” with Venita Blackburn, author of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes.

S217: “Of Many Tongues: Diverse Traditions in Anglophone Writing” with Torsa Ghosal, coeditor of Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives.

3:20-4:35 p.m. PDT

S234: “The Poetics of Grief: Private to Public” with Julie Carr, author of Mud, Blood, and Ghosts.

S246: “Scarlet Tanager Books Celebrates Native American Poetry from California” with Denise Low, author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart.